Joel Feinberg

philosophers states that all human actions are motivated by selfish needs to benefit themselves. According to psychological egoists true altruism does not exist because the consequence of such an act leads to an increase in personal happiness. However, Joel Feinberg does not agree with that theory and in his essay he disagreed with the thesis that altruism

legalization of abortion could be liberating to those who support it, and restrictive to those who believe that it is immoral, unholy, destructive to society, et cetera. In Joel Feinberg’s article, The Concept of Freedom, he discusses how the word free, without any context, does not shed any light on what makes something free. According to Feinberg, “most general ascriptions of freedom are best understood as elliptical, or abbreviate for some longer expression…we may have to add specifications of what someone

examining the article “Absurd Self-Fulfillment,” written by Joel Feinberg. I will be pinpointing the central conclusion of this article, as well as the argument’s premises and the article’s central argument. I will also explain how the article relates to the film Being John Malkovich, and finally the school of philosophy, which we call “existentialism” and three of its central tenets. In the article “Absurd Self-Fulfillment,” Feinberg offers his readers a close up examination of absurdity, self-fulfillment

When examining how the egoist can come to the conclusion that an act done to the detriment of the one acting for the sake of another can still be called selfish, Feinberg found that the egoist changes the definition of selfish to meaning motivated. So the theme of all motivated action being selfish in Psychological Egoism is found to be a fallacy by indicating that the correlative of selfish exists when really there

In Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval, Kenneth R. Feinberg provides a brief overview of his unique career implementing large payout and compensation systems following tragedies. As the title suggests, the main goal of the book is to shed light on how Feinberg implemented a number of previously unprecedented compensation funds and decided which parties should be compensated, how much they should be compensated, and the burden of proof required by each party, all

Key to the current state of America’s meat industry, according to Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is the fact that it is primarily hidden from the consumer. The consumer, as well as corporations, have chosen to build walls instead of demanding transparency. The general public and journalists are not permitted to enter abattoirs of many corporations, leaving the judgement of how animals should be slaughtered to the businesses themselves. State and federal regulations are not often

addressed earlier go back to much simpler times, but that’s just one perspective of the song as it has been interpreted in many different ways. Now another song that I love, which has similar effects to “Africa” is “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel, which is featured on his album Storm Front. This song,

Life can be confusing while at the top of the food chain. For most animals, eating is simply habitual and is a subconscious choice. Monarch butterflies eat milkweed, koalas go for the eucalyptus leaves, and whales chow down on plankton. But we homo sapiens, hindered by a big brain and inventions such as agriculture and industry, face a bewildering array of choices, from scrambled eggs to Chicken McNuggets, from a bowl of fresh blueberries to the chemically complex yellow and white log of sweet, spongy

The film Phone Booth is a morality thriller directed by Joel Schumacher who is also a screenwriter and film producer. The film was scheduled to be released on the 15th November 2002 however, due to the Beltway sniper attacks it was delayed to the 4th April 2003. The key actors of the film are Collin Farrell, who plays Stu Shepard, Kiefer Sutherland, who plays the caller, Forest Whitaker, who plays Captain Ed Ramey, Radha Mitchell, who plays Kelly Shepard and Katie Holmes, who plays Pamela McFadden

In 2008 Joel Garreau conducted interviews and wrote a piece titled "Friends Indeed" for the Washington Post. Garreau brings up possible dangers, minor inconveniences, and what truly defines a friend in the new media world we live in. I felt Garreau came across as jaded by most of the interviews he conducted. He did not seem to speak with a wide array of people that gave positive impacts social media can have, but rather focused on the negatives of the subject. Garreau did bring up valid points,